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fine, dense, very melting, almost free from granulations ; juice abundant, refreshing, sugary, 

 with an exceedingly pleasant after flavor of anis; first; mid-Oct. 

 Bonne de Beugny. i. Rev. Hort. 280. 191 1. 



A chance seedling, found at Sainte-Catherine-de-Fier-Bois, Fr., by M. Chivert in 1875. 

 Fruit large to very large, globular-obtuse-pyriform, yellow, washed with russet especially 

 round the stalk; flesh melting, juicy, sweet, and agreeably perfumed; first; Oct. to Jan. 

 Bonne Carmelite, i. Guide Prai. 88. 1876. 



Distributed from Toumai, Bel. Fruit semi-melting; like Calebasse in form; Mar. and 

 Apr. 

 Bonne de la Chapelle. i. MasLe Wrger 2:231, fig. 114. 1866-73. 



A wilding found by Jacques Jalais, Nantes, Fr., in 1845. It was described in this 

 country by Downing in 1869. Fruit medium, turbinate, short and swelled, rather irregular 

 in contour, green, sprinkled with dots of a deeper shade of green, some russet blush on 

 the exposed side; flesh a little greenish, flne, buttery, melting, with abundant sweet juice, 

 first; end of Aug. 



Bonne Charlotte, i. Leroy Did. Pom. 1:477, fig. 1867. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 

 705. 1869. 



Obtained from seed in the garden of the Society of Van Mons at Geest-Saint-R^my, 

 Jodoigne, Bel., in 1849. Fruit medium, variable in form, but usually simply pjrriform, 

 bossed, pale yellow, with green dots, lightly washed with purple on the side exposed to the 

 sun; flesh white, rather fine, more buttery than melting, sugary; juice sufficient and slightly 

 musky; good; Aug. and Sept. 



Bonne d'Ezee. i. Ann. Pom. Beige 5:73, fig. 1857. 2. Pom. France i:No. 34. PI. 

 34. 1S63. 



Brockworth Park. 3. Hogg Fruit Man. 535. 1884. 



A wilding found at Ezee in the Touraine, Fr., by Dupuy about 1788. Fruit large, 

 often medium, long-ovate-obtuse; skin rather thick, oily, lemon-yellow or golden, dotted 

 and stained with bright russet; flesh white, very fine and melting; juice excessively abun- 

 dant, sugary, acidulous, having an exquisite aroma; first; all Sept. 

 Bonne de Jalaic. i. Leroy Diet. Pom. 1:480, fig. 1867. 



Obtained from seed in 1857 at Nantes, Fr., by Jacques Jalais. Fruit small, globular- 

 ovate, bossed, one side always more enlarged than the other; sldn rough, pale yellow, dotted 

 with clear brown and stained with russet markings; flesh whitish, semi-fine, melting, 

 sometimes a little dry, slightly gritty at center; juice sufficient, very sugary and having an 

 agreeable flavor; second; latter half of Sept. 

 Bonne- Jeanne, i. Leroy Diet. Pom. 1:481, fig. 1867. 



Origin unknown, but in the middle of the nineteenth century it was extensively culti- 

 vated in the environs of Paris. Fruit medium to small, pyriform-obtuse, depressed at 

 crown and stem, yellow-ochre, dotted and mottled with fawn and washed on the exposed 

 side with brick-red or brilliant- violet-red ; flesh greenish-white, semi-fine, and semi-melting, 

 rather dry, very sweet and with a not unpleasant taste of fennel ; third, middle of Aug. 

 Bonne Sophia, i. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 706, fig. 1869. 



Fruit medium, obovate-acute-pyriform, pale greenish-yellow, with a red cheek, a 



